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Yoon Sun YANG CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of World Languages & Literatures Boston University 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
Office: STH 604 Email: [email protected] Personal Mobile Phone (773) 420-7650
EDUCATION
Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2009 Dissertation: “Nation in the Backyard: Yi Injik and the Rise of Korean New Fiction, 1906–1913”
M.A. Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University, 2002
M.A. Comparative Literature, Yonsei University, South Korea, 1998 Thesis: “A Study of Pierre Macherey’s Symptomatic Reading”
B.A. Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University, South Korea, 1995
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Korean & Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Boston University, 2018– Assistant Professor, Korean and Comparative Literature, Boston University, 2012– Affiliated with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2016– Assistant Professor, Korean Studies, Arizona State University, 2009–2012
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
James B. Palais Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2020
BU Center for the Humanities Enhancement Project Award (for the three-year-long lecture series, “Recent Books in East Asian Literature”), 2020
BU Center for the Humanities Enhancement Project Award (for the modern Korean literature workshop, “In Search of New Horizons: One Hundred Years of Modern Korean Literature”), 2017
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BU Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2014–2015
Korea Foundation Grant to Support Korean Studies E-Resources (in collaboration with Mugar Library), 2014–present
Daesan Foundation Grant for Translation, Research, and Publication of Korean Literary Works (for an earlier iteration of my book project From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea), 2011
Korea Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 2008–2009
Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2005–2008
Pre-dissertation Travel Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 2005
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002–2005
Teaching Assistant Scholarship with Full-Tuition Scholarship, Stony Brook University, 2000–2002
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS:
From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Asia Center, 2017)
Time Travels: Transpacific Korean Literary Archives (in progress)
Under the Medical Gaze: Illness, Sexuality, and Literature in Colonial Korea (in progress)
EDITED VOLUMES
Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (London: Routledge, 2020)
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Madness, Medicine, and Masculinity: Kim Tongin’s “Oh, the Frail-hearted!” (1919– 1920) The Journal of Korean Studies 23:2 (October 2018): 423−42
“Female Ghosts to Ghostly Womanhood: Mt. Ch’iak (1908–1911) and Birth of Modern Korean Fiction,” Comparative Literature Studies 51:4 (December 2014): 644–73
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“Enlightened Daughter, Benighted Mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood’ and Korean Domestic Fiction,” positions: asia critique 22:1 (2014): 103–130
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Introduction” Yoon Sun Yang ed. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (London: Routledge, 2020), 1‒11
“Interracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early Korean- American Literature” in Yoon Sun Yang ed. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (London: Routledge, 2020), 239‒54
“Sapphic Marriage and Radical Domesticity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Korean Literature” (a slightly revised version of a chapter from my first monograph) in Retelling Fantastic Tales in the East Asian and Global Contexts, edited by Liang Luo (submitted to Brill [the East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture Series] for peer review)
“Disorderly Emotion and its Vicissitudes in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Korean Literature” (in progress)
REVIEWS
Review of Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea. By Dafna Zur. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. The Journal of Asian Studies 78:1 (2019): 211–212
Review of Factory Girl Literature. By Ruth Barraclough. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, The Journal of Asian Studies 72:4 (2013): 1007–1009
ANNOTATED TRANSLATIONS (Korean to English)
“KAPF literature in modern Korean literary history,” translation of Yoon-shik Kim’s “Han’guk kŭndae munhak ŭi sisŏn esŏ pon k’apŭ munhak” (positions: east asia cultures critique 14:2 (2006): 405–425
Sensitive Young Men’s Narratives: An Anthology of Early Colonial Korean Short Stories and Essays, 1907–1918, with Sandra Lee (the prospectus for this book of translations, which consists of my single-authored introduction and sample translations, was accepted by the Publications Committee of the MLA Series Texts and Translations in October 2016) (in progress)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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“Kyemong toen ttal kwa minong ŭi ŏmŏni: Yi Injk ŭi hyŏl ŭi nu wa isipsegi kajŏng sosŏl” (Korean translation of “Enlightened daughter, benighted mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood’ and Korean domestic fiction”), Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture (July 2011): 71–84
INTERVIEWS
# AsiaNow Speaks with Yoon Sun Yang (about the award-winning book From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men)
https://www.asianstudies.org/asianow-speaks-with-yoon-sun- yang/?fbclid=IwAR1zTbrssNstxPuG0yZRYQgvscM6UhvrzhUARWsrgEAX7dK71oaay T_YJSo
INVITED LECTURES
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men,” Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk, Harvard University, March 6, 2020
“What Constitutes the Individual in Early Colonial Korea?” Wesleyan University, September 19, 2019
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea,” Recent Books in Korean Studies, Colloquium, the Center for Critical Korean Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 19, 2019
“Disorderly Emotion: Medical Discourse and Literary Madness in Colonial Korea” The 26th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium, George Washington University, November 9–10, 2018
“Visualizing Sexual Violence against Women without the Male Gaze,” Keynote speech at the Brockport International Film Festival, College at Brockport, April 23, 2018
“Domestic Individuality and Collective Interiority in Early Colonial Korea,” University of Toronto, March 8, 2018
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks, University of Chicago/ the Seminary Co- Op Bookstore, February 26, 2018
“Sensitive Men and the Affective Turn in Early Colonial Short Stories,” The Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, July 27, 2016
“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea,” Korea Institute, Harvard University, April 14, 2016
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“The Birth of Sentimental Youths: The Affective Turn in 1910s Korea,” Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, September 29, 2014
“The Birth of Sentimental Youths: The Affective Turn in 1910s Korea,” Center for East Asian Studies and Korean Studies Program, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University, September 30, 2014
“Kyemong toen ttal kwa minong ŭi ŏmŏni: Yi Injk ŭi hyŏl ŭi nu wa isipsegi kajŏng sosŏl (Enlightened daughter, benighted mother, Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood’ and Korean domestic fiction),” Fifth International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture, Yonsei University, South Korea, July 30, 2011
“Gender and the Rise of Modern Korean Fiction: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906) and “Peony Hill” (1913),” University of Virginia, February 25, 2011
“Leaving Home to Return Home: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906),” Arizona State University, January 29, 2009
“The (Un) Making of the New Home: Yi Injik’s “Tears of Blood” (1906) and the Rise of Korean New Fiction,” University of Washington, November 20, 2008
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, & WORKSHOPS
Discussant, Three || Eight: Korean Literature and the Division System, University of Michigan, November 22 ̶ 23, 2019
Chair & Discussant, Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk, October 10, 2019
Mentor, Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop, Princeton University May 17, 2019
Discussant, New Frontiers in Premodern Korean Studies Workshop, Korea Institute, Harvard University May 9 ̶ 10, 2019
“Orientalizing the Occident: A Sinicized White Man and a Westernized Chinese Woman in Nak Chung Thun’s “A Pitiful Grave,” the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 23, 2019
“Violence and Interiority in Yu Hyŏnmok’s An Aimless Bullet,” Cinemas of Societies in Transition: Middle East and Asia Film Symposium, BU Center for the Study of Asia, February 13, 2019.
Panel Discussant, “Gender and Ethnicity in Literature,” Harvard East Asia Society Conference, February 8, 2019
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Panel Discussant, “Time and History in World Making,” Korean Literature Association Workshop, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 26−28, 2018
Panel Discussant, “Beautiful Boys and Glamour Girls: Gender, Youth and Emergent Modernity in Japan and Korea,” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March 17, 2017
“Living Stateless: North Korean Refugees in Cinema,” Leaving Home: Asian Venture into the World: Asia Film Festival, BU Center for the Study of Asia, November 16, 2016
“The Diagnosis of Pains, the Anatomy of Mind: Medical Science and Korean Fictional Narratives in the late 1910s and early 1920s,” Korean Literature Association, Stanford University, November 5, 2016
“The Diagnosis of Pains, the Anatomy of Mind: Medical Science and Korean Fictional Narratives in the late 1910s and early 1920s,” Inaugural Symposium, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University, October 10, 2016
“Sapphic Marriage in Korean Popular Fiction,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 18–19, 2016
Discussant, Three-University (UCLA, Seoul National University, Harvard) Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard University, May 6, 2016
“Sapphic Marriage and Fairytales of the Self-made Man,” Korean Literature Association Inaugural Conference, Duke University, November 12–13, 2015
“Male Sentimentality in Korean Short Stories from the 1910s,” Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 29, 2015
“The Birth of Sensitive Men and the Affective Turn of Modern Korean Fiction,” BU Center for the Humanities Fellows’ Seminar, March 4, 2015
“The Birth of Sentimental Youths,” MLCL Faculty Colloquium, Boston University, November 19, 2014
Discussant, 10th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop: New Generations, New Ideas in Korean Studies, Harvard University, June 7–9, 2014
“Sentimental Men and Cultural Capital in 1910s Korea,” American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, March 20–23, 2014
“Domesticity, Ghostly Womanhood, and Colonialism,” Association for Asian Studies at Toronto, Canada, March 16, 2012
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Discussant and Chair, Translating Romantic Love between Cultures, Traditions, and Languages in Korea, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, April 2, 2011
“Enlightened Daughter, Benighted Mother,” North American Workshop on Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 15, 2010
“Civilizing/ Colonizing Korean Women,” Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 2, 2009
Chair, Organizer, and Presenter of panel, “Home Fronts: The Making and Unmaking of the Modern Home (Kajŏng) in Korea (1900–1950),” Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 26, 2009
“Leaving Home (Ka) to Return Home (Kajŏng): Yi Injik’s ‘Tears of Blood,’” 4th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers, Australian National University, Canberra, June 26, 2008
“Leaving Home (Ka) to Return Home (Kajŏng),” Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago, May 25, 2007
“Enlightenment, Women, and Ghosts: Mt. Ch’iak,” Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago, January 28, 2005
COURSES TAUGHT
Boston University
Introduction to Korean Literature Gender in East Asian Film Modern Korean Culture Through Cinema Comparative Literature: East Asian Literature Literary Modernism and Colonialism in Korea Growing up in Korea Readings in Korean Literature
Arizona State University
Korean Film and Literature Korean Literature in Translation Literary and Cultural Theory Women of Korea
University of Chicago
Love and Domesticity in Korea
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GUEST TEACHING
Yi Kwangsu, The Heartless (1917); Yi Sang “Wings” (1936) (Lectures videotaped for the course, Introduction to World Literature) Faculty of the Humanities, Georg- August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, August 21–23, 2018
“Early Colonial Domestic Novels and First-Generation New Fiction Writer,” Modern Korean Women’s Fiction, University of Chicago, February 27, 2018
Introduction to World Literature, Boston University, Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936), November 21, 2016; December 5, 2017
Korean 4, Boston University, Why Study Korean Culture? September 14, 2016
Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature, UC Berkeley, Yi Injik’s Tears of Blood, September 29, 2014
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES & EVENTS ORGANIZED
Recent Books in East Asian Literature (three-year-long speaker series, funded by BUCH), September 2020‒June 2023
Lecture by Su Yun Kim (Assistant Professor, Korean Studies, University of Hong Kong), Boston University “Imperial Romance: Desire and Intimacy in Korean Literature, 1905‒1945,” March 26, 2020.
Lecture by Michelle Cho (Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto), “Various Media: Serial Liveliness and Fan Mediation in K-pop,” Boston University, April 10, 2019
Lecture by Todd Henry (Associate Professor, History, UCSD), “Between Freedom and Death: Female Taxi Drivers as Cross-Gender Labor in Authoritarian South Korea,” Boston University, December 7, 2018
Book Reading by Kyung-Sook Shin of her novel The Court Dancer, translated by Anton Hur (Pagasus, 2018), Boston University, September 25, 2018 (co-organized with Yu Jin Ko, English, Wellesley College)
Korean Literature Association Annual Workshop: “In Search of New Horizons: One Hundred Years of Modern Korean Literature,” October 26−27, 2017
Lecture by Dr. Han Sang Kim (Ph.D. in Historical Sociology, Seoul National University, Visiting Researcher, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia,
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2015–2016), “Cinema and Mobility: A New Look at Korea’s Modernity in the 20th Century,” Boston University, October 20, 2015
Lecture by Dr. John Song Pae Cho (Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College), “Refusing Exile Lecture: Married Homosexual Men and the Queering of South Korean Family,” Boston University, November 6, 2014
Lecture by Dima Mironenko (Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University), “From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Jong Il: North Korean Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s,” Boston University, February 18, 2014
Poetry workshop by David McCann (Korean Foundation Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University), “Out of the Haiku Pan and into the Sijo: Poetry Workshop and Reading,” Boston University, November 22, 2013
Lecture by Ruth Barraclough (Senior Lecturer, Australian National University), “Red Love in Korea: Rethinking Communism, Feminism and Sexuality,” Boston University, November 1, 2013
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Boston University
Director of Undergraduate Studies, World Languages & Literatures, Fall 2020
Convener of Korean, Fall 2012–present
Advisor, Korean Minor, 2014–Present
The Development of the Proposal for a Korean Minor Program, 2013–2014
Member, Search Committee, Tenure-Track Professor of Pre-1900 East Asian Literature, spring 2020
Member, Korean Lecturer Search Committee, spring 2017; spring 2018
Member, Search Committee, Tenure-Track Professor of East Asian Media and Popular
Culture, fall 2016–spring 2017
Member, Humanities Curriculum Committee, fall 2015; fall 2016–present
Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2013/2014; fall 2015; fall 2016–
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present
Organizer, MLCL Faculty Colloquium, fall 2015
Chair, Korean Lecturer Search Committee, 2014
Arizona State University
Coordinator of the Korean Certificate Program, Fall 2011‒Spring 2012
The Development of the Proposal for a Korean Certificate Program, 2011
Other Professional Organizations
Member, James B. Palais book prize committee, Association for Asian Studies, 2020– 2021
President, Executive Committee, Korean Literature Association, 2018–2019
Member, Steering Committee, Korean Literature Association, 2016–
Consultant Reader, ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2014–
Member, Editorial Board, Han’guk kŭndae munhak yŏn’gu (Study of Modern Korean Literature), 2011– 2016
Peer Reviews
Acta Koreana ariel: A Review of International English Literature Azalea Columbia University Press (a book manuscript) Comparative Literature Studies East Asian Publishing and Society Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema Korea Journal Korean Studies Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation position: asia critique Signs: The Journal of Culture and Society The Journal of Asian Studies The Journal of Korean Studies The Review of Korean Studies Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association Association for Asian Studies Modern Language Association Korean Literature Association Associate in Research, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Last Update: September 21, 2020